Example sentences of "[noun] were over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just trying to remember that j Oh erm down on Road , here , where the vicarage is , it used to be a pub , because the vicarage were over here at once upon a time . |
| 2 | But by the time their financial worries were over their political options seemed to be over too ; starting new relationships looked easier than the tortuous process of political realignment . |
| 3 | The following day , Iranian aircraft were over Baghdad . |
| 4 | But the charity behind the clinic says the parents were over reacting . |
| 5 | The final breakthroughs were over such devilish details as the spread of the banding system for valuing houses , and the extent of exemptions . |
| 6 | The main areas of disagreement were over the economic control of aviation on the North Atlantic . |
| 7 | Everybody ( and I must say at this point all participants were over the age of 16 , the legal age of drinking in Germany ) got very mellow and slept well . |
| 8 | When the ten years were over the Romans tried to reimpose tribute on the Franks , but the latter killed the tax collectors . |
| 9 | In this case the council argued that the property was set within a block in which all but one of the tenants were over pensionable age . |
| 10 | In harsh numerical terms we did n't accept the Policy Committee guidelines , we felt that they in some ways were over generous and we aimed for , we purposely , deliberately set ourselves lower targets with point we 're two point six million below the Liberal Democrats for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 11 | The rooms were over a former shop now used by a small-time printer , and the clacking and rumbling of his press would underscore the activities of the squad . |
| 12 | Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail . |
| 13 | Between 1831 and 1861 the increase in the rural population was slackening as out-migration ( especially to London ) strengthened , although most moves were over short distances . |
| 14 | In 1987 , 10.4 million people in Great Britain were over retirement age . |
| 15 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 16 | The horse-lines and baggage were over the river . |
| 17 | ‘ But it was noticeable in the town that when the elections were over there was a reduction in high profile security . |
| 18 | P. Yeah Reese ( Simpson ) , Monty Nolder , Mouse , Bryan Pennington , Jeff Phillips and Jason Parks were over here a short while back and we went up to meet them and skate at Bury . |
| 19 | Siward 's men were over the stream . |
| 20 | Mum and Dad were over here for a holiday a while ago and they went to the Cotswolds which they said were beautiful . |
| 21 | When Vietnam and Watergate were over things simmered down in society and the urgency sort of fell out of film making ; the directors did n't quite know where they were , they had no targets . |
| 22 | Schemes were over ambitious , the majority of them being for BA ( Hons ) , when it would have been more realistic to start with something less demanding . |
| 23 | It is understood Mr Pringle was involved in the earlier incident , and that the shootings were over his relationship with Leanne . |
| 24 | However , sets of annals were over the years repeatedly copied , added to , and recopied , and E was demonstrably derived from earlier manuscripts which no longer survive , but whose entries were mostly unchanged by later scribes . |
| 25 | As soon as the civil greetings were over the earl with his nicely judged courtesy made to withdraw . |
| 26 | The Red Cross were over there straight away . |